Grace Blakeley: Generation Despair. Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
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Opinion | 'Housing is a resource that we all need to function and thrive'
🖋️ @kwajo.bsky.social
Read more: trib.al/d1WcNhX
Deputy group leader for Reform UK at Cornwall Council steps down and defects to Restore Britain
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Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
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Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness
Have you ever found yourself quoted online for something you never said?
We've seen a few examples of academics having their voice used for quotes they never said in fake news websites and in AI chatbots – but think there's a lot more
If that's you shoot me a DM or comment here
#journorequest
‘Rather than a politics of generational warfare, we need a politics of generational solidarity… We must cherish social infrastructure – parks,
libraries, piers – and moments of communal joy.’
@georgeeaton.bsky.social on how community can help reclaim the future:
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Speaking on Sky this AM about Mandelson, energy sec Ed Miliband says:
"Prime ministers make errors. Prime ministers are fallible. Prime ministers are human. As you know, I steered well clear of Peter Mandelson when I became Labour leader in 2010. But people make mistakes."
🚨 Olly Robbins is currently giving evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee.
"I've been a civil servant for a quarter of a century. I could recite the code to you and I believe it, along with probably the Book of Common Prayer. It's one of the two things I kind of can hold in my memory"
I can't wait to read this. The loss of Paul Auster is still deeply sad.
One of my favourite authors for years, after picking up a copy of the New York Trilogy at random as a teen, but all of his work from the early poetry, to classics like The Book of Illusions and Invisible, were just flawless.
Listen to the recently released track by Massive Attack and Toms Waits below.
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Exclusive: Virtus, a US firm central to the Trump administration's push to secure critical minerals from Congo, overstated its mining experience, Reuters has found reut.rs/4cAqwu7
Went to pre-order a copy of this and realised that I'd already done just that in January! Looking forward to it arriving.
AYCC are the real bloody deal. I just donated, please consider donating too if you can. There aren't a huge number of REAL ONES out there sticking solidly to the task of climate action and fossil phaseout but these amazing ppl are staying strong
Help them!!
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Boris Johnson has gone from partygate shame to a series of lucrative paydays – with the latest coming in the heat of Miami
✏️ Nicky Woolf
Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford 4m Olly Robbins' bombshell evidence so far: * The Cabinet Office suggested there was no need to vet Mandelson *at all* * No 10 applied 'constant pressure' on Mandelson to approve Mandelson's appointment and took a 'dismissive' attitude to vetting * Mandelson was given access to the FCDO building, to low classification IT and to 'higher classification briefings' before he was granted security clearance * No 10 showed **no interest** in the actual vetting. The entire focus was on getting Mandelson to Washington as quickly as possible
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Reform really should be an absolute gift to a sitting government. Deeply target-rich opposition leader who is badly tainted by Trump. Back rank of even more unlikeable characters. Real nervousness among voters about them.
That Labour is still doing so badly shows exactly why Starmer needs to go
"I walked into a situation in which there was already a very, very strong expectation, coming from number 10, that [Mandelson] needed to be in post and in America as quickly as humanly possible," Olly Robbins tells MPs.
"There was a generally dismissive attitude to his vetting clearance"
‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership
The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.
It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.
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Transparency in politics matters.
A £36,000 private healthcare-related donation was accepted by Peter Kyle from Faculty AI. As the debate over the NHS continues, these ties must remain under the spotlight.
Donate to help us deepen our research into these connections: link in bio.
You can lead the Daily Telegraph to an NHS story, but you can't make them report it accurately.
Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
❌ The Mandelson-Epstein emails again highlighted how the UK's lobbying transparency regime is woefully inadequate.
Poor transparency allows well-connected individuals and companies with deep pockets to influence decisions that should be made in the public interest.
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It's 2026. The question isn't which thing can we burn to produce electricity that is slightly less worse than the other things we burn.
Building new infrastructure to burn things in 2026 is peak stupidity and greed.
Luckily solar, wind and storage are cheaper.
Yesterday I said Gail’s ‘isn’t very nice’
A new scoop from @writesbright.bsky.social for @desmog.com with The Mirror 👇
The £675K pocketed by Farage from foreign governments, companies & donors dwarfs his public salary.
For me, this begs the question, Farage is Minister of Parliament for... who exactly?
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The JC has published an op ed by Nigel Farage rallying against Jew-hatred.
This is a man who sang antisemitic songs, and supposedly said “Hitler was right”, “Gas them” during school days
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📌 ICYMI — Trojan Horse? Rupert Lowe’s Far-Right Restore Britain Is Standing 13 Candidates as ‘Independents’ in One Council
Anti-racist campaigners accuse the ex-Reform MP of seeking to "disguise" the extreme views and affiliations of his candidates
4/ PALEO - Deep-sea sediment cores from the Atlantic preserve chemical fingerprints of past ocean circulation.
They show the #AMOC shut down repeatedly during the last ice age, triggering hemispheric temperature swings of 10–15°C within decades.
This system has an off switch.
"gender critical or religious views" oh interesting. Can I support the Taliban's extreme interpretation of Islam and call for the downfall of the decadent west, and then sue anyone who tries to stop me? Or are those not the religious views we're talking about?
